Sentences with phrase «abnormal angiogenesis»
This finding, made by two scientists from TSRI, may lead to new therapies, as abnormal angiogenesis is the leading cause of vision loss in the United States.
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We really wanted to find a compound, a chemical, that would profoundly stop the growth of blood vessel cells, which of course are the cells that go on to form the abnormal angiogenesis in wet AMD.
If you irradiate a tissue with a short laser pulse, the part with abnormal angiogenesis will absorb more laser energy than the surrounding tissues and produce a different acoustical signature.
«Due to the higher hemoglobin concentration, abnormal angiogenesis has higher optical absorptions in certain wavelengths than normal tissues,» Xiao explained.
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«Finding a way to control angiogenesis not only provides a target for the development of anti-cancer therapies, but may also prove useful in similarly starving abnormal blood vessel growth elsewhere in the body, like in diabetic eye disease.»
Because, of course, it is this abnormal proliferation of blood vessel cells, which we term angiogenesis, in the back of the eye that is the key feature of wet AMD.